melancholia
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But he added, acidly: “there was little about melancholia that he didn’t know; there was little else that he did.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
And people looking for a dose of introspective melancholia at the end of the festival will have to choose between The National on the Other Stage, and James Blake, who plays in the Woodsies tent.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
While his absence has obvious resonance, if you were expecting some kind of Hamlet-style anguish or even a hint of misty melancholia about the now-absent symbolic father, forget it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
Less like fear and more in keeping with melancholia, dread has no defined object.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2023
Still, settings like this had always been for other people, not me, and I fought back some ancient fear and melancholia.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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